CFP: 21st Century American Novelists (various; collection)

From: DLB 21st Century (dlb_21st_century@hotmail.com)
Date: Mon Nov 20 2000 - 23:55:58 EST

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    Call for Papers
    Dictionary of Literary Biography: 21st Century American Novelists

    The editors are pleased to announce the forthcoming publication of a new
    volume in the distinguished Dictionary of Literary Biography series. This
    volume will focus upon 21st Century American Novelists. We seek
    contributors to write bio-bibliographical articles with a critical focus for
    this volume. Available essay topics are listed below, along with the
    approximate length of each article.

    To request consideration for an assignment, please email the editors at
    dlb_21st_century@hotmail.com. In this email, you should indicate the
    author(s) about whom you are interested in writing. If you are requesting
    more than one author, please place the names in your order of preference and
    indicate the number of essays you wish to write. You will also need to send
    a copy of your c.v. by email attachment in a PC-compatible format; please no
    MAC files! Deadlines will be assigned upon selection, but essays will
    generally be due in the late spring, 2001.

    For further information, please contact:

    Suzanne Disheroon Green, Ph.D.
    Lisa Abney, Ph.D.
    Northwestern State University
    Dept. of Language and Communication
    318 Kyser Hall
    Natchitoches, LA 71497
    318.357.6272
    dlb_21st_century@hotmail.com

    3000 word essays
    Adams, Alice
    Agee, Jonis
    Berg, Elizabeth
    Bohjalian, Chris
    Childress, Mark
    Cunningham, Michael
    Dickey, Eric Jerome
    Escandon, Maria Amparo
    Garcia, Christina
    Gilbert, Elizabeth
    Haruf, Kent
    Hoffman, Alice
    Humphries, Josephine
    Jin, Ha
    Landvik, Lorna
    Mewshaw, Michael
    Norris, Helen
    Picoult, Jodi
    Rice, Christopher
    Shreve, Anita
    Tyree, Omar
    Wilcox, James

    5,000 words
    Ellis, Bret Easton
    Frazier, Charles
    Friedman, Kinky
    Guterson, David
    Letts, Billie
    McCullough, Colleen
    McDermott, Alice
    Morris, Mary McGarry

    10,000 words
    Allende, Isabel
    Burke, James Lee
    Crichton, Michael
    Koontz, Dean
    Ludlum, Robert
    McMillan, Terri
    Phillips, Jayne Anne
    Quindlan, Anna

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